Healthy Mondays: Exercise Resources

Have you shifted your workout to the great outdoors now that Spring is here? Or are you sticking to a gym?

The experts at Healthy Mondays provide a great reminder about the different kinds of exercise you can do anywhere: There are four main types of physical activity: aerobic, muscle-strengthening, bone-strengthening and stretching. Each works to keep your body trim and healthy in different ways. Aerobic benefits your heart and lungs most while stretching targets joints and increases flexibility. Get a well rounded work-out this week by incorporating each of these four types of activity. Start by researching some steps online or chat with a fitness expert or doctor.

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Need fitness inspiration? Or ideas on how you can change up your workout and add different types from the ones listed above? Check out these two resources that I use on a regular basis:

American Council on Exercise's Get Fit. Their exercise library lets you pick specific moves based on the area of the body you want to target. Once you pick the exercise and click through, you get detailed step-by-step instructions so you can get the most from your workout.

SparkPeople's Exercise Demos. The images have an animation effect where you can see the person going through all of the motions of a move, which is super helpful for understanding how it's supposed to be done.